| Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
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| Government support of innovation in small business: North Carolina’s Green Business Fund |
2016 |
1048 |
This dissertation examines, from an economic program evaluation perspective, North Carolina’s Green Business Fund (the Fund), a state-level grants program to provide support for small businesses conducting R&D related to sustainability technologies. ... |
| Firm social capital and the innovation process |
2019 |
624 |
This dissertation conceptualizes, measures, and evaluates social capital as a productive input for innovative firms. First, a theoretical production function is conceptualized that considers social capital as an input into the production of three imp... |
| When innovative research fails: exploring the role of principal investigators |
2021 |
175 |
There is a small but growing body of literature that examines the role of principal investigators in publicly funded R&D projects. In this dissertation I discuss the literature on principal investigators and R&D project failure and found there is lim... |
| An economics perspective of patenting behavior in small entrepreneurial firms |
2020 |
145 |
This dissertation explores the use of patents as an Intellectual Property Protection Mechanism (IPPM) among small entrepreneurial firms both from a theoretical and an empirical perspective. I borrow from the patenting and firm signaling literature to... |
| Immigrant innovative activity among entrepreneurial firms: a study of European firms |
2021 |
43 |
This dissertation investigates the commercialization efforts of immigrant-founded knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship (KIE) firms in Europe. Founders of KIE firms have a higher receptiveness to technological opportunities and the exploitation of suc... |
| The early diffusion of smart meters in the US electric power industry |
2017 |
3948 |
The impact of new technologies within and across industries is only felt through their widespread diffusion, yet studies of technology diffusion are scarce compared to other aspects of the innovation process. The electric power industry is one indust... |